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7. (Scots Law) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. Tomlins.

Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.

{ Ex*tract"a*ble (?), Ex*tract"i*ble (?), } a. Capable of being extracted.

Ex*tract"i*form (?), a. (Chem.) Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.

Ex*trac"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. extraction.] 1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.

3. That which is extracted; extract; essence.

They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Milton.

The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.

Ex*tract"ive (?), a. [Cf. F. extractif.] 1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan.

2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out.

Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc.

Cairnes.

Ex*tract"ive, n. 1. Anything extracted; an extract.

Extractives, of which the most constant are urea, kreatin, and grape sugar.

H. N. Martin.

2. (Chem.) (a) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts. [Obs.] (b) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.

Ex*tract"or (?), n. One who, or that which, extracts; as: (a) (Surg.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances. (b) (Breech-loading Firearms) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

Ex`tra*dic"tion*a*ry (?), a. [Pref. extra- + L. dictio a saying. See Diction.] Consisting not in words, but in realities. [Obs.]

Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six.

Sir T. Browne.

Ex"tra*di`ta*ble (?), a. 1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.

Ex"tra*dite (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extradited(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extraditing(?).] To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

Ex`tra*di"tion (?), n. [L. ex out + traditio a delivering up: cf. F. extradition. See Tradition.] The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

Ex*tra"dos (?), n. [F.; pref. extra- outside + dos (L. dorsum) the back.] (Arch.) The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.

Ex`tra*do"tal (?), a. [Pref. extra- + dotal.] Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.